Clarity’s blog

wow, another year, new Blogisattva awards for Buddhists blogs and bloggers are here. Lots of interesting things this year and I’m looking forward to exploring many of them. This blog even seemed to be nominated in three different categories. Of course, as luck would have it, the post that got nominated twice - Thinking of others, currently returns a blank page!!! sheesh! Best post of the year indeed. Bloody Typo.
Thanks for the nominations though, and I hope I get the post back up soon!

Update: the post seems to be working ok now. Still, I think it’s really time to switch to Wordpress.

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Hey, my weblog is one of the nominees in the blogisattva awards - achievement in Buddhism-inspired blogging during 2005. I’m in the category Best Kind and Compassionate Blog. Pretty neat! I guess that means someone is reading this weblog after all…
The girl is also there, under Best Personal Journal!
Have a look at all the other nominees, there seems to be a lot of very good stuff there.

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Today I have met my first Slovenian fellow blogger, author of My So-Called Blog. I’ve written a little about her blog before.
It is really very nice to meet in real life a person whose writing I’ve been reading for so long. Thank you for taking the time, B.!
If there is ever another Slovenian weblog meet, it would be really nice to meet some others as well. David, what do you say?

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I’ve been thinking this evening after reading the girl’s post on richness, about people or things that bring joy to my life. What came up, interestingly enough, was one person that I’ve never actually met, but have been reading her blog for a while now.
Reading it almost always cheers me up and I’m not quite sure why. She just writes about the most mundane things in her life, like today on:

baking bread and
cutting her finger with a spoon during the making. Or she stumbles upon the weirdest things.

There’s just something so ordinary about it, so no nonsense and no pretense about it, that it inspires me a lot. In Shambhala we would say it simply manifest basic goodness of being human.
So, thank you BeeBee for writing it!

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From Russell

Papers in the US tried to censor this harmless comic…

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English Cut

By choosing to buy the most humanly-touched products we can afford, or at least striving to do so, we’ll not just benefit the craftsmen out there. It will give you the impassioned knowledge that someone, somewhere, has added a little of their character into your suit. No machine can imitate this. It’s what makes the coat, Bespoke or otherwise, truly unique and frankly, that’s what keeps the customers coming back. Yes, the fact that their coat has a human story behind it makes it seem more special to them.

Amazing, what you find in the world of blogs! Tailor’s blogging!

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Well, well, I’ve been
called
a pioneer of the Buddhist blogosphere… Interesting..
Perhaps I should get back into blogging a bit more, and focus more on buddhist things. and look at what other buddhist blogs have sprung up in the meantime. Ow,My Blog definitely looks very interesting. Subscribed!

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Burningbird: Faux PhotoBlog

Have to remember to do this for my moblog when i get back from my retreat…

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But before I go I just have to share this little gem - dandruff::All sheep welcome here. This is an amazingly beautiful weblog of Stephanie Troeth, aka Sniffles. I’ve met her on IRC channel #joiito and she’s quite an interesting person. A perl geek, web designer, awesome photographer, Charlie’s author, a writer, poet,… and probably lots more that i haven’t discovered yet. I hope you’ll enjoy this little gem as much as I do.

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Well, I guess it’s finally time to announce my new
moblog.. I haven’t played much with the layout so there’s plenty to be improved but still for now it’s ok. For those that don’t know moblog stands for mobile weblogging, and it generally means a weblog of photos that are uploaded directly from mobile devices - for example my Nokia 3650. Have fun!

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Looking at my recent referrers list i found this:
Zec Online Dnevnik - seems like one of the first blogs in Croatia. Excellent!. I think I’m probably still the only weblogger in slovenia, so it’s nice to see that people from this part of the world are starting to jump on the bandwagon. He also has an RSS feed. So if you know Croatian, have a look!

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This all started when I tried to read Jon Udell’s weblog through a web browser on my Nokia 3650 - it loaded around 360kb worth of stuff and the layout was such that i needed to scroll for about 10 minutes to actually get to the articles. Needless to say I was not very happy with this. So I emailed Jon and he gave me an idea putting his RSS feed through an XSLT transformet out outputting simple HTML that I could feed to my Nokia. Not knowing much about XSLT i took Aggie’s default stylesheet and hacked it a bit to output simple HTML.
Ok, so now I can convert RSS to HTML through an XSLT processor, but it’s only a first step - this has to happen online for me to be of any use. Again browsing through Jon’s articles gave me an idea of of using the w3.org XSLT service to make the transformation. And it works like a charm! Except I only get excerpts from the article not the whole thing - again I emailed Jon for help, we’ll see what he will come up with. He’s supposed to have an alternate RSS feed with whole articles but somehow it does not seem to work. I’m sure we’ll work with out though.
Ok, so what else can I do with this? Hmm, I have my news aggregators feed list in OPML, maybe I can convert the list to a bunch of links that would use the w3.org XSLT service to render RSS on the fly in HTML?
Few clicks later, and here it is!. Now I just create small HTML page with a link to it, so it’s easily accessible and voila, a poor mans RSS reader for mobile phones is complete!

Wow, that was pretty simple and quite powerful. The power of this kind of ad hoc scripting never ceases to amaze me!

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Blogging goes mobile

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Manywhere - Moblogger

This application runs as a background process that monitors a POP3 email account for new email, then downloads it, detaches any files such as pictures, sound or video, uses the Blogger API to post the text in the email to your blog and uses FTP to post the files to your server. Send the email from a phone and you immediately start “moblogging”.

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TheFeature :: It’s All About The Mobile Internet

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